triumph is expected to arrive sometime in mobile alabama this afternoon. it has been there since sunday when a fire broke out in a room. the families of those on the ship have been worried sick. >> we feel helpless. she is on the medication. my grandmother is on a medication. i am really worried about their health. >> carnival has canceled a dinz more planned voyages. the crippled ship had problems the in the weeks before.

>> christopher dorner was hold up for five days before taking hose owners hostage. we are hearing are the people he took inside and bound and gagged them. >> he came in and tied it around our head and -- (inallible. >> dorner left he stole their vehicles they called 911 hours they believe dorner was killed in another cabin after a firefight went on with police. >> janet napolitano says our borders are stronger than ever it came as they held the first hearing on immigration freerm. not all illegal immigrants should be treated equally.

>> our immigration system is not working. our communities, workers and employers are all frustrated by a system that treats a drug smuggler the same as a high achieving student undercuts honest employers and deportation and vulnerable fraud and other crimes. >> president obama wants a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in america. he has asked for a bipartisan bill to be ready in the next five months. fox news confirmed general allen will retire. he over saw u.s. and nato fors during the petraeus scandal. he doesn't want to hut his family through any more scrutiny. florida senator marco rubio hit some water due to the state

of the union. rubio tweeted picked up over 3,000 new followers on twitter last night. i am going to start drinking water in the middle of all of my speeches. take a look at the marco rubio water bottle. reclaim america is offering one if you donate -- 25 bucks or more on-line. president obama's two big nominees john brennan and chuck hagel facing resistance. a show down looming in the senate as democrats attempt to break a gop filibuster of the defense nominee chuck hagel. >> good morning ainsley, first things first that top job at the pentagon since we are one day closer to the devastating automatic cuts to the defense departments potentially being brought about by the sec quest tore on the first of march. even during such an uncertain time some republicans want to

make sure the correct person is installed as defense secretary. they are ready to keep asking questions until they are satisfied enough to vote one way or another on chuck hagel. >> the debate on chuck payihage not over. it has not been serious. we don't have the information we need and i am going to fight the idea of jamming somebody through until we get answers about what the president did personally when it came to the benghazi debacle. i think democrats have no problem doing that with bush and they did the country a service by probing in. >> terri reed who is generally okay with the policies says public obligation is generally political. >> nom nae for secretary of

defense has been filibuster. what a shame. that is the way it is. >> john brennan mostly because he hasn't perceived the answers by whether or not brennan helped craft the drone policy thinks the president has the ability to order a drone strike on u.s. soils. >> still reaction to the president's state of the union address. this morning that's what mark levin is talking about. >> he appeared on "hannity"." he blasted them for what he thinks is misleading the american people. it will not add a dime to the deficit. lavin says that is just false.

>> i would say to the president why do you keep lying to the american people a castro like speech last night albeit in english. lie after lie after lie. i will tell you because your record stinks. 23 million people are unemployed. real unemployment is almost 15 percent. you didn't say any of this in your long speech last night. one in every four families affected by unemployment 8.5 million people left the work force the lowest since 1948. one in 6 people live in poverty. median family income has dropped by 5 percent. meanwhile members of congress are clapping seals applauding all of this. gas prices the highest on record. the economy shrank nearly $0.25 of every dollar produced on our economy taken by the federal government. he didn't say any of this because it's embarrassing it's a disaster. here's the problem. the reason why he doesn't take responsibility for this is

before you can hold them to account he is proposing more programs more trust more partnerships more agencies more spending and you can't keep up with the guy. for him america is a problem. the enterprise system is a problem. the american people are a problem. >> later in the show more from mark levin fears the most. chilly air in the northeast. >> if yit's your snuggle up valentine's day forecast. if there is ever a reason to it brought 1-2 inches we don't need

another foot or more of snow. one across the northern rockies a quick moving clirp s -- clirp. i want to show you the front moves offshore here. saturday owe want to watch a quick moving system making its way offshore. this may be a quick weather maker. saturday into sunday could bring snow into the snoert eas northe. i don't think it will be a blockbuster storm but we will keep an eye on it. as we get into tomorrow you can see single digits in some cases across the northwest as far south adds florida. since it is valentine's day time for a hokey forecast for you valentines nebraska 24 degrees lub lynn colorado 26 for you.

52 balmy degrees in romance, arkansas. kissimmee, florida $64. that's adorable. you can't get too cheese zsy fo us. it's time to brew on this here's what we would like you to brew on today on this valentine's day a fox news poll says politics and love go hand in hand. is it important that your valentine shares your political views. 28 percent of you said it is very important. the very important category got the most votes this year the some what category we want to know how important is it to you. 10 after the top of the hour. coming up social media guy p ant

facebook mafacing a major lawsu. the like button may have been ripped off from another company. we will explain next. >> are you driving one of the most dependable cars in america? a look at the gas prices. the new national average is 3.63.

>> a capacity crowd on hand for pope benedict's final public mass as a pontiff. the standing ovation and

cheering before the service went underway. the pope resigning at the end of the month. facebook not liking a new lawsuit. the duj programmer claims the social networking site ripped off his like and share button. he said he patent the ideas but died before they became reality. the suit claims facebook knew about the patents and stole the ideas. >> ainsley, another look at who is talking this morning. malkin weighing in on chris dorner. some piered to be cheering for the suspect. >> it is sickening and chilling. chris matthews wasn't the only one in the media. there were many figures among the professional left who if they weren't explicitly cheering christopher dorner on certainly

harbor some sick sympathy for this man. it goes back to academia it goes back to treating these evil people and empty vessels into which they pour every last left wing grievance. if you watch that clip very closely it almost seems like chris matthews takes pride that he was mentioned in the manifesto with all of these other liberal journalists. of course there's this idea among people at the dregs of media that somehow only smart people watch them. >> it makes a lot of sense. >> at 8:00 a.m. this morning michelle malkin will appear on fox and friends with much more on this. >> now stories that you can bank on this morning. a major merger in the sky today. joi joining us now in the fox

business network is lauren simonetti. this is huge the largest airline carrier will be formed today. >> it is expected to be announced today. the board of american airlines parent amr and u.s. airways voting to merge and creating like you said the largest airline in the world. we are talking about a value near $11 billion. the deal could take up to a year to close. in the meantime what should fliers do. a lot of people get nervous especially what can happen with ticket prices. your frequent flair miles will not disappear and international options are going to increase. as for the fairs the reality is that four domestic airlines would control 83 percent of all seat assignments that's fewer choices and could impact prices but really not as much as you might think. ratings are warning the combo would weaken operations at certain airports and some of the connecting hubs could be

eliminated. >> if you driy a lexus you are in good hands. >> fewer problems. if you can afford one these days toyota's top luxury brand which is lexus the most dependable three-year-old cars from the 2010 year. hee mark went to porsche, toyota and lincoln brands as well. cars are becoming more reliable than ever. not all of them. they went to land rover, dodge brand, mitsubishi and ford.

>> happy valentine's day. 18 minutes after the top of the hour. who would you like to see as the next president of the united states? the answer might surprise you. you expect to find a lot of things on the guolf course. what about drugs? you are going to be surprised that. what was found on the bathroom in the fairway coming up next.

oy 22 after the hour. the largest magazine publisher may be no more. time warner is in talks to sell parts of time, inc. this comes days after it would layoff the 6 percent of 8,000 plies. the revenue has fallen 30 percent in the last five years. something straight out of the tv show breaking bad. workers were shocked to discover a makeshift meth lab inside of a port-a-potty outside of an oklahoma golf course. they have a lead on one of the suspects. >> that's terrible. >> he will run for president in 2016 that according to a new report in the new york post. it says bill clinton told a source his wife is planning on running for the white house in the next election. would she make a good president. the fox news poll says yes. what politician would make a good president hillary clinton

took the top spot with a 55 percent top positive rating. she is the only politician that got a positive response. another former secretary of state condoleezza rice with 43 percent. new jersey's governor and former republican vice president nominee. paul ryan with third for 37 percent and rounding out the top 5 current vice president joe biden with a 35 percent positive rating. chris christie is above paul ryan. overseeing the nation's money is facing tough questions about how he has over seen his own money. chief of staff jack lieu is beginning the process become treasury secretary. they have details of what went down on the hill. the finance committee top

republican had a possible conflict of interest. >> he would be saying do as i say not as i did. >> 945,000 dollar bonus he received. >> explain why it would be morally acceptable to take post domain dollars out of a company that was insolvent and about to receive a billion dollars of tax payer support. >> it was a manner of people who did the same kind of thing i did in the industry. i was compensated for my work. i will leaf for others to judge. >> dakota cu baucus talked abou in a well-known tax haven. >> i don't know why it was organized. i was not involved in setting up the fund. >> did you pay taxes on that investment?

>> i reported all income related to the investment on my tax forms. i paid all of my taxes. >> he went on to say he lost money on the investment. nevertheless last year the owe bam pma campaign talked about te money. they would stop the self-inflicted wounds to the economy. republicans said president obama must lead. >> i hear the president talking about raising money through tax reform. to me if you get economic growth you will get new revenue but the old fashioned way. that ought to be the goal. >> other conservatives including jeff sessions are angry about lieu's testimony when served as budget director. >> i think it is an accurate statement our current spending will not be increasing the debt. we have stopped spending money we don't have. we can't wish the national debt away. >> sessions is so mad he accused

lew of deliberate sessions. it could lead to fireworks on the senate floor. >> mike i emanuel, thanks. coming up students at one high school suspended for chanting usa and wearing patriotic bandanas. >> just in time for valentine's day the secret to lasting love would could be revealed. nearly 100 love letters made public for the first time. first on this day in history in 1977 the b-52's played their first dig at a valentine's day party. there is no mass produced human. so we created the extraordinarily comfortable sleep number experience. a collection of innovations designed

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>> welcome back to "fox & friends first". i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am patti ann browne. it is 30 minutes after the hour. >> it is time for your 5@5:30. family and friends saying their final farewell to the riverside police officer killed by ex cop christopher dorner. michael crane was waiting at a red light last week when dorner pulled up next to him and started to open fire. crane had no time to react. >> that's how i was with us,

every day got better, every day we renewed our love, and i knew how much he loved me. how much he loved those babies. >> crane leaves behind his wife and two children. >> we now know how anthony scalia real fliels about obama care and about chief justice's decision to uphold it. i was disappointed in the way it came out. have you ever heard the expression win some lose some? that's life and i have to be resigned to it. many conservatives says roberts would strike obama care down. >> usa! they are chanting usa and wearing american flag bandanas at this game.

school officials felt the usa cheering and american flag bandanas. the punishment was rescinded but said the incident is far from over. he was one of the most inspirational stories of last year's olympics now he's under arrest in connection with his girlfriend's death: he said his girlfriend was found shot in the head. the 26-year-old is expected to appear in court today. the details of the shooting. there's some talk he may have mistaken her for an intruder. love letters from the greatest throw man'ses will be released. the lyndon b. johnson lube brar rewill post it at 9:00 a.m. 1934 on their first date lyndon johnson proposed. they spent the next two months getting to know each other through nearly 90 love letters

and got married at the end of all of that. >> following his saturdtate of union address the president is on the road pushing his economic plans. he is facing harsh opposition. >> a stop near atlanta today. he will keep having to come back to the economy. the president toured a factory in north carolina touting what he says is a manufacturing come back for the u.s. economy and pushing the idea that he outlined his state of the union address. more money for preschool education. >> i talked about making sure kids get early high school education. make sure our high schools are preparing children for high-tech

economy. >> with high sky the national debt growing larger and larger additional spending will be difficult to get through congress. the white house may be making a strategic decision that there is no political benefit from focusing on debt and deficits. republicans say the plan to raise the federal minimum wage from 7.25 up to 9 bucks an hour will kill jobs just as the economy is struggling to add them. there are signs retail sales a big driver for the economy are sputtering. when you raise the price of employment guess what happens? you get less of it. at a time when american people are asking the questions where are the jobs why would we want to make it harder for them to hire people. >> advocates for the minimum wage say it will act as a

stimulus program. they say it will infact suppress job growth. it is unclear how far the white house is willing to push this. >> janice has the forecast in some of the most romantic cities across the country. >> what do you think the number kwun rom-- number one romantic y is in>> paris. >> new york? >> new york is a top 5. number one, you ready? >> let's do it. >> san francisco. >> i could see that, yeah. >> 7:00 p.m. eastern time. still be daylight. 63 beautiful degrees. new orleans number 250 degrees. 38 at 7:00 p.m. savannah georgia coming in at number 452 degrees with cloudy

skies this evening. have a wonderful valentine's day. the rest of the country we have things to talk about. we have a system across the northeast pulling offshore. brought us a quick inch or two not a big deal. they are watching a system in the northern rockies and great lakes. lots of moisture through the southeastern florida. getting potential for flood advisories. here's what we received over the last 48-hours. some cases 3 to 4 to 5 inches of rain. we are into a severe drought situation here. it ultimately is a good news story they need the moisture. a kwiek look at the storm system wore watching this weekend for the northeast. this particular computer model brings the storm offshore as a weak low but we could still see snow across the i 95 corridor. it doesn't get its act together until sunday. something to watch for. of course ladies we have record

breaking snow across the northeast last weekend. we don't need any more snow for people backing out. >> no place to put it for a while. >> absolutely right. >> time for the starting lineup top sports stories talk about a king's ransom mariners pitcher felix hernandez has signed the biggest contract ever given to a pitcher in baseball history. they will make $175 million over the next 7 years. all of it guaranteed. great news for hearn dedz. great news for the kentucky wildcats. he has a corn acl and will be out 6-8 months. he hurt it during this play in florida. he is one of the top players in college basketball and was going to be the first pick in this year's nba draft. >> look who was playing a rule in a security guard that is will ferrell wearing the scape pell

center jacket. i kicked out shaquille o'neal sitting court side. not clear if this was a stunt possibly being filmed for a movie. >> ainsley. >> time now for 7:00 at the fox light. it was lady's night on american idol. >> yes, it was the women got their shot at hollywood glory following a week devoted to the guys the competition was fierce ainsley. first up 162 ladies were put through the sudden death acapella round in order to be given opportunities to assign a group. one of the strong e groups include the sassy bells of raising cane. ♪

>> the top 20 girls and guys will bothi be announced tonight. >> ryan seacrest says there are a lot of female performers are really good. with females there's always drama. >> i understand some celebrities are finding love. they always do, right? >> hollywood's hottest has their plans. >> this val dines is my parent's 30th anniversary. so that blows all of us out of the water. >> the key ingredient to romance is surprise. it would really not be good if my wife heard on national television what i was planning for her. sorry. it will be something different. something different. not the same routine.

>> what about your plans for tonight? >> my plan is to get in bed early because i have to be here early in the morning. >> it's true. once you say i do you don't. >> i didn't say that. i didn't say that. >> okay. >> moving right along. fashion week here in new york. >> here in new york it is fashion week and the world's top designers have the new fall collection in front of stylists editors and occasional celebrities. the iconic design carolyn herrera and asked them about their inspiration for the season. >> (inaudibwe (indiscernible) a hint. a little bit of lap el like the shoulders and tiny wasist and movement of the skirt. >> they had a real men's wear. image of old movie stars that

dress like men. i use a lot of inspiration from that. >> i understand you got in on some of the fashion week action? >> i did. real quickly karolina her raw she designed the wedding dress for our senior producer getting married in a few months. >> i have seen it but i will not reveal. >> i did get a chance to go. i went to see "millie." michelle smith is a friend of mine she is a de siren. such great styles she has and this is michelle with her little daughter. her daughter runs out at the end of every show and michelle picks her up and twirls her around. we love millie. >> happy valentine's day. >> happy valentine's day. >> it's 42 after the top of the hour. before you hit the gym this morning you might want to think about walking instead. a study shows walking might be better for you than high tinsity workouts. we like that. trouble forte lower swift's

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oo long periods of walking could be better than the hue tinsity workout. it is better than an hour long high octane workout. we love that. that is connor kennedy getting cuffed outside of a white house. son kennedy jr. getting raised at a rally voiinvolving the keystone pipeline. she wasn't happy about a c plus so a graduate student is suing. we are hearing from her father about the case.

stacy stauffer has the story. >> her father at the university she is suing. >> she is suing lehigh university for a whopping 1.3 million saying it robbed her of her dream job after giving her a c plus in one of her classes. according to the lawsuit while attending the university for free in 2009 her teacher says the family raved after complaining she had to take an extra internship and being an advocate for gay rights. >> she is very outspoken in her desire to work with those who don't have a voice particularly those in the gay and lesbian community. >> you think that has hurt her? >> lehigh says carr has a close

family member who is gay. she wasn't ready to move on saying acted unprofessionally swearing and crying in class. a judge asked both sides to agree to a settlement and allow the 27-year-old to take the class again. lehigh only saying they needed to preserve the integrity of the grading system something her father can relate to. >> we tried everything possible to avoid getting to this point. hope the families can heal. >> lark laugh vin the biggest fear for the country what eerie american needs to do. >> not so fast kanye and kim causing a major breech at jfk. what happened that left their flight delayed to close than an hour. let's tune into dooef dos see find out what's going up on fox and friends.

>> we have the brand new medal of honor recipient clinton romashay. he was honored by the president le earlier this week. see him here on "fox & friends." it is valentine's day. how to find mr. or mrs. right. are foods really an aphrodisiac? what does chocolate do other than making me break out? we have this special valentine's day edition of fox and friends starts 10 minutes from right now.

>> first he dictated the size of cuffs and now he wants to change what the cuffs are made of. now considering a ban of

styrofoam cups and containers. the waste can be resiblinge -- recycled. their american airlines flight got delayed for an hour because kanye and tim skipped a tsa security checkpoint when they were running late. an airline employee took them around the screening area eventually they were pulled off for a private pat down. >> radio talk show host mark levin sounding off this morning. >> look who is talking this morning. he discusses with sean hannity what he fears most for the country. >> i fear it all. i fear exactly what you say. it's across the board. this president has unleashed so many attacks on our system, on our society and it's obviously quite intentional. that's what he means by fundamentally transforming america. what he means by that is hal lowing out our military which he considers imperial and colonial

type of a military that has done negative things. image that the command commander-in-chi commander-in-chief. he is not securing the border despite the propaganda. anybody who goes down to the border you know it. executive fee ats to undermine existing law whether it's welfare and the work aspect of it whether it's our immigration laws and now they are destroying our healthcare system one regulation at a time. i fear it all. the issue is what do we do about it? what we do about it is we dig in and we fight them ever strip of the way. whatever he wants he doesn't get. when he violates the separation of powers doctrine and starts legislating by fiat we go into court. if we lose him in court we take him to court on another measure. we have to i can at that the political brass. we have to slow him down this man is in a hurry, he doesn't like the constitutional system. he doesn't like separation of powers and checks and balances. we have to do everything we can politically, legally to slow him

down. >> 6 minutes to the top of the hour. coming up, alert the pc police why one school is banning valentine's day exchanges because not everyone has a valentine. it's all part of our valentine's day edition of the good, bad and the ugly. >> chance to answer the question of the day. is it important that your valentine share your political views? we will have some of your e-mails next. [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes? just begin with america's favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo. or best-ever meatloaf. go to campbellskitchen.com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. a great cup of coffee should be easy as one, two... well, just one. new single serve cafe collections from maxwell house now available for use in the keurig k-cup brewer. always good to the last drop.

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>> two minutes till the top of the hour. let's look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. valentine's day edition. first the good.